20 Mass. App. Ct. 962 - Commonwealth v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 2002
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Bastarache · Commonwealth v. Flynn · Commonwealth v. Hughes · Rambert v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Cote
Most-quoted passages
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““A prisoner of any penal institution . . . who . . . fails to return from any temporary release from said institution under the provisions of [G. L. c. 127, § 90A] . . . may be pursued and recaptured and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than two and one-half years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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